Implementing REST Services using Web API

REST has emerged in recent years as a tremendously important vehicle for creating flexible and standards-based Web services.

This course describes REST best practices and discusses important architectural and API modelling concepts, which you need to know in order to create scalable, secure, and performant REST APIs. The course is based on ASP.NET Web API 2, and discusses many of the rich framework APIs and advanced techniques available.

Duration

3 days

Prerequisites

6 months experience of C# programming

Familiarity with ASP.NET MVC is beneficial

What you'll learn

Creating REST services using Web API

Advanced Web API 2 techniques

API architecture and modelling concepts

Working with OData

The importance of Hypermedia in REST

Building secure REST services

Implementing Quality of Service features

Deploying and hosting REST services

Course details

Essential Concepts

Overview of REST

HTTP methods, requests, responses, and headers

Creating a simple REST service using Web API

Web API 2 Techniques

Managing flexible HTTP requests and responses

Dependency injection

HTTP message handlers

Filters

File uploading

Model Binding

REST and MIME types

Content negotiation

Media formatters for XML, JSON, and BSON

Creating a custom model formatter

Configuration

REST Clients

Consuming REST services in .NET

Consuming REST services in web and mobile clients

Additional types of client

Managing Routes

Web API routing mechanisms

Route parameters

Best practices for designing APIs and routes

Architectural considerations and best practice

Working with OData

Overview of OData

Defining a data model

Configuring an OData endpoint

Implement CRUD operations

Advanced techniques

Building Hypermedia-Driven REST Services

Overview of Hypermedia

Understanding HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) constraints